Road: Haynes steps up for Rhyl win

Beaten into third place at Rhyl CC’s circuit races four days earlier, Will Haynes (Herbalife-Leisure Lakes Bikes) made amends by winning the final round of the Graham Weigh Cycles Series at Marsh Tracks.

The 21-year-old university student, from Penrhyndeudraeth in North Wales, outsprinted Dan Whelan (Onimpex-Bioracer) and Todd Hotchkiss (Performance Cycles-CMI U23) on a tough night when gales battered some of the field into submission.

Local second category Matt Limacher (Champion System-Maxgear-Kyklos) was with them until dropped towards the end of the race, but he continued on his own for fourth place ahead of Dylan Kerfoot-Robson (Rhos-On-Sea CC), who took the bunch sprint for fifth having already lapped the rest of the field with the leading quartet.

Rhyl CC's 62-year-old Alan Forrester gave a remarkable performance to finish sixth and gain enough points to move up to a second category licence in his first season of road racing.

Alex Harvey (Rhos-On-Sea CC) for once managed to outfox the previously dominant Birkenhead North End CC duo of Jack Hulme and Max Spedding in the Youth A race, while Sol Kerfoot-Robson (Rhos-On-Sea CC) landed his 16th win of the season.

British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.